Averting global extinction
Subtitle: our irrational society as therapy patient
By: Louis S. Berger.
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780765706522; 9780765706546
Subjects: Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects; Survival
Description: "Humanity's irrational failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and ensconced in and perpetuated by pathological societal defenses. In Averting Global Extinction, Louis S. Berger conceptualizes society's self-destructiveness as an analogue to the self-destructive psychopathologies of individuals and devises a "sociocultural therapy" by translating a carefully selected individual psychotherapy framework, a subtype of the so-called analysis of defense, into a corresponding societal therapeutic methodology - society becomes the "patient.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Individual psychology and sociology; title: The Freud wars : a critique; title: The framework of defense analysis; title: The target framework : sociocultural defense analysis (SDA).